Designs for a Cooler Planet
Visit Designs for a Cooler Planet festival in Otaniemi on 6 Sep – 3 Oct 2024 to challenge your perception of the possible.
Aalto Networking Platform
Aalto Networking Platform
The Aalto Networking Platform initiative promotes cross-disciplinary actions in Aalto University’s seven key research areas. We bring together experts in science, technology, arts and business, across departments, supporting collaboration both inside and outside of Aalto.
Highlights
Featured stories, events, and other content by the Aalto Networking Platform.
Hydrogen Research Forum Finland: Annual Seminar 2024
Welcome to Hydrogen Research Forum Finland's annual seminar hosted at Aalto University.
Artificial Creativity – Aalto LASER Talks
Is artificial intelligence simply a tool, or does it possess creative capabilities?
Aalto Networking Platform Task Force
Key research areas
Learn more about activities in the seven key research areas of Aalto University.
Key Research Area: Advanced energy solutions
The main focus in energy research and teaching are energy sciences, multidisciplinary energy technologies, and sustainable energy solutions.
Key Research Area: Arts and design knowledge-building
Art and creativity enable looking at the grand challenges of our time from a new perspective. Look past the imaginable and join us in changing the world in art and design knowledge building.
Key Research Area: ICT and digitalisation
Digital technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and communications are cut through the whole society, from education to medicine and economics.
Key Research Area: Global business dynamics
Research related to global economy dynamics is carried out in the areas of business, economics, and industrial engineering and management.
Key Research Area: Health and Wellbeing
Aalto University’s expertise in health and wellbeing is broad-based, with strong clusters of research groups such as in medical devices, health AI, neuroscience, and care-facility architecture.
Key Research Area: Human-centred living environments
Research in this area aims to understand how individuals experience their physical environment and how art, spaces, buildings and communities can enhance it.
Key Research Area: Materials and sustainable use of natural resources
Materials research ranges from physics, nanotechnology, mechanics, performance and design to biomaterials and sustainable resource use.
Related events
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Film screening and Q&A: Spectacular Specimen
Join for the documentary screening of Spectacular Specimen. An exploration of our relationship to the sea and a mixture of experimental essayistic film and documentary on marine research. The film brings playfulness alongside the analytical natural science, seeking to diversify its alienating, objectifying gaze.
Artificial Creativity – Aalto LASER Talks
Is artificial intelligence simply a tool, or does it possess creative capabilities?
Aalto x IPCC: Climate scenarios, research and solutions
Climate focused lecture and a panel discussion event open to everyone. The event will be in Finnish.
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Related news
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1.5-million-euro ERC grant for creating physical feedback loops in life-inspired materials awarded to Hang Zhang
Dr. Hang Zhang was granted 1.5 million euros on Thursday by the ERC to create coupled physical feedback loops in hydrogels with varying dimensions.
Everyday choices: Kristjana Adalgeirsdóttir, what does an architect do in a war zone?
This doctoral researcher responds to the need for a home, not just a shelter – amid the most complex humanitarian crises.
Threads of tomorrow – textiles that react to light and heat
A joint Nordic project is developing light- and heat-reactive textiles. In the future, curtains will regulate room temperature, clothing will help monitor blood pressure, and cotton will clean itself in sunlight.
Bringing human touch back to industrial settings – 5 things we should know about Industry 5.0
Integrating digital twins and extended reality (XR) technologies leads to smarter, more adaptable industrial operations, says Doctoral researcher Xinyi Tu.- Published:
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